Breivik declared "insane" by psychiatrists

http://www.euronews.net/ Court-appointed psychiatrists have concluded that Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in July, is criminally insane.




Breivik, who has admitted carrying out attacks in Oslo and on Utoeya island, is said to have developed paranoid schizophrenia over a long period of time.




Prosecutors added that the psychiatric evaluation may mean that he will not be sent to prison.




Breivik was described as living in a "delusional universe," governing his thoughts and acts.

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[OzDeist]

@hayden50 Actually before getting all macho about it, you should realize that ALL European countries have abolished the death penalty, with the exception of Belarus. It's also been abolished in Canada, Latin America, Oceania, Turkey, central Asian countries, and has at least been suspended indefinitely in Russia and Korea.

Just because America does it, it doesn't make it right.

[bigotmaster]

Enemies of the Chinese State - so-called political subversives such as members of Falun Gong - have been imprisoned in psychiatric hospitals, receiving psychiatric diagnoses such as: "political maniac", "delusions of reform" and "paranoid psychosis". (wikipedia)

[TheNatroth]

and some psychiatrists say he is not insane

[HusdalHusdal]

@mykie2005 u wrote: " A insane person could not have carefully come up with this kind of master plan." I never said you said that he was stupid either x) I was just pointing out that a insane can come up with a "master plan". and i dont fuckin care about readin both. i dont care about the other, i was answering ur first comment. not the other one..

[mykie2005]

@HusdalHusdal If you read both my comments correctly you would understand that I did not say he is stupid or denied he is insane. My issue is that he is NOT being labeled an INSANE TERRORIST. I find your comment stupid...

[HusdalHusdal]

@mykie2005 Stupid comment in my opinion, you should really know more about being insane, before sayin that. You dont need to be stupid to be insane

[tulpoy]

@uforunity he made himself schizo to kill people that were not giving him the good life he thought he deserved. and, if thats true then thats probably why he had so many friends and was able to function for so long independently.

[tulpoy]

he didnt think of himself as a terrorist, he thought he would start a war, a rebellion where people who thought like he does would feel free to attack groups he hates. but, apparently, no one feels they are strong enough to do that. he did enough research to be able to figure that out. but, i guess he wanted to believe that even the small groups would give up their lives for the cause of racism. probably why, as he wrote, he desocialized himself to gain mental strength. he did it to himself.

[mykie2005]

@gustavth1 Point I'm was tring to make is if he's insane and is judge as insane (which I agree people who do this are insane by the way) Then ALL Terrorist should be judge and labelled in the same way. what he did insane or not WAS an act of terrorism right? Basically It pisses me off that he is being passed off as just insane and not an insane terrorist...

[gustavth1]

@mykie2005 well, i sure as hell ain't calling terrorists normal. And they are insane, why the hell else would they blow themselves up?!

[mykie2005]

If you're a muslim & strap a bomb to yourself killing 77 people your a terrorist. If your a white european & kill 77 people your insane. A insane person could not have carefully come up with this kind of master plan. If you don't agree then you should call all terrorist insane too right?

[thePetterjeppsson]

I believe that him being put in psychotic care is the best punishment he can get. We're just going to support his own imaginary world that he is a knight who did the right thing if we send him to jail. However, if we send him to psychotic care, and give him treatment, he will have to face the fact that his view of the world is completely twisted, which I think would cause him more pain than being locked up in a prison cell, convinced that he has sacrificed himself for the ¨greater good¨.